History
Gokashō Station opened on 19 March 1899 as Obata Station on the Ohmi Railway Main Line, sited near where the line crosses the historic Nakasendō road. On 1 January 1910 the station was relocated roughly 200 m south and renamed Gokashō. A siding was added around 1943 and transferred to Seibu Construction in 1948 to serve a riverside gravel-extraction yard. The aging station building was demolished in 1982, and the line ran without any building at all until the present timber, tile-roofed structure was completed on 21 September 2000 in a style sympathetic to the historic Gokashō merchant town. Barrier-free platform works finished in April 2014.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
The current station building also houses the local Silver Human Resources Centre, whose staff manage the unstaffed station and run a bicycle-rental service from the same room.